Carousel.



. E. T. VANGBZELL.

GAROUSEL.

. v APPLIOATION FILED 131101.21, 1908. 925,402. Patented June 15, 1909.

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E. T. VANGEZELL.

CAROUSBL.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 21

Patented June 15, 1909.

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WITNESSES H N M T T A EIoE.

EZEKIEL T. VANGEZELL, or CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EZ KIEL T. VANGEZELL,

a citizenof the of the city New Jersey, have invented certain new. and

United States, and a resident useful Improvements in Carousels, of which the following is a specification. I

My inventlon relates to improvements in carousels and the objects of my invention are to furnish an improved means .for carrying'and an improved means for driving the rotating platform which carries the simulated animals which are ridden by the occuantsto furnish an imoroved means'for supporting said -animals; to furnish an improved means for giving to said animals a motion independent ofand in addition to the movement of the carrying platform, and to furnish certain other improvements which will be described hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, and in which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views: Figure 1, is

a side elevation, partly in section, of my improved carousel; Fig. 2, a plan of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3, a side elevation of one of the animals showing, in section, the supporting standard and, in side elevation, the means forgiving a movement to said animal independent of the rotary movement of the carrying platform.

a is the rotary platform of the carousel.

Secured to the under side of the platform a, and preferably concentric with it, is a circular track 6 which is carried by wheels c which are carried by a second circular track 03 which is carried by the ground. The wheels 0 form roller bearings for carrying the moving parts of the carousel and in order that they'may at all times maintain their proper relative positions they-are fur-- nished with, shafts or axles the inner ends of which are each separately pivoted at g to a plate f which is carried by a central shaft it which is itself rotatably carried by the platform a, the shafts being pivoted at their inner ends to permit the wheels to move vertically in case of any inequalities in the tracks. The shaft. h is furnished with a worm wheel a, best shown in Fig. 1, which gears with a. worm j whiclr is driven by'a suitable motor is motor drives the worm j which drives \vorm wheel 2' and shaft /L'Wl 1lCh,- 'l]hI"Ough shafts or axles Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed August 21, 1908.

and county of Camden, State ofparticular driving motion which platform necessary.

carried by platform a. The

0, drives the wheels or rollers Patented June 15, 1909. Serial No. 449,600.

0 upon the tops of which the circular track 6- rests, hence the motion of the.wheels c is imparted to track band to platform a which latter revolves. as the wheels move over the tracks.

I do not desire to confine myself to any means as it will be evident that any suitable apparatus for this purpose may be employed. l

The nimals Z are pivoted to a hollow support m, Fig. 3, at n.

0, is a rod passing through support an at its upper end pivoted to the animal at p and at its lower end to the outer end of a crank r which is carried by a radial shaft 8.

t is a crank carried near the inner ends of shafts s the lower end of which engages with a cam slot a framed in the periphery of a disk 4) which is suitably carried by plate 7". As the platform-a revolves the crank t is dragged around through the cam slot at which imparts to this crank a reciprocatin 8 and the cranks r carried thereby; from the cranks 'I' this motion is given to rods 0 which rocks the animals, which are pivotally' supported at n as before described, to rock with a motion closely resembling a gallop.

The devicemay be equipped with any number of shafts s, in the drawings, see Fig. 2, ten shafts s are shown and each of these shafts is shown actuating three animals placed abreast. Of course the number of animals operated by -one shaft maybe increased or diminished as wanted or as dictated-by the diameter of the platform a. It will be observed that the platform a and the animals are supported from beneath and that there are no rods or stays above the approximately twice as fast motion is-imparted to the'shaft Having thus described my invention 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters J Patent 1. In a carousehin combination, a rotating platform, a circular track carried by the underside of said platform, a shaft passing through but not en aging said platform, arms or axles carrie by said shaft, wheels carried by saidaxles and carrying said .circular track, a circular track earned by the ground carrying said wheels,- and means for rotating said platfor I 2. In a carousel, in combination, a rotating platform,

underside of said platform, a shaft passing a circular track carried by-the second crank secured to said shaft, a cam 'ing platform, two circular tracks one carried i freely through said platform, arms or axles by. said platform and the other by the carried by said shaft, Wheels carried by said ground, wheels resting upon said latter and arms upon the tops of Which said track is carrying said former track, a shaft passing carried, a second circular track carrying said through and turning freely in said platform,

a disk having a cam slot formed circumferwheels, and Yneans carried by said platform for rotating said shaft and connected parts. entially in its periphery, arms carried by 3. In a carousel, in combination, a rotatfsaid shaft upon which said wheels turn, ing platform, means for carrying and means hollow standards arried by said platfor rotating said platform, a support carried form. simulated by said platform,asimulated animal pivoted standards, rods carried radially by said to said support, adshaft carried by said platl platform, cranks carried by said arms, rods form, a crank carried by said shaft, a'rod passing through said hollow standards and one end of which is pivotally secured to the pivoted to said cranks and to said animals, outer end of said shaft and to said animal, a cranks carried by said rods engaging the cam slot in said disk, and means for rotating said platform.

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adapted to engage said latter crank to rock said shaft during the rotation of said platform.

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in combination, a rotatannnals pivoted to said,

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